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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA. OCTOBER 19. 1961.
He Still Has Friends
No matter how low the dollar
falls, people keep falling all over
one another trying to pick it up.—
Bristol (Va.) Herald Courirer.
PAGE FIVE
Kick
Wives are like cider - the longer
you leave them standing around, muivicu wn jiavmi' rcucrai i.ranr r,
the more of a kick you get - U S r l Y fj I T L oY "
Charges at ritzgerald Urban Planning
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Coast Guard Magazine.
Wife, Two Men
Indicted On Slaying
Roberta to Share
Federal Grant for
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CAME
AND
FISH
By FULTON LOVELL
Squirrels and the Botfly
If you’ve never heard of the botfly, I’m sure
you’ll recognize the name commonly attached to its
egg. The name is wolves, and anybody who has ever
skinned a squirrel during warm weather has prob
ably seen them.
The botfly lays its egg on the body of the
squirrel, and it’s generally believed that the
squirrel swallows the egg when he washes him
self. The egg matures in his stomach in the ’
form of a worm and works its way into the
muscles. This forms a sore and an inflammed
area on the squirrel, and is easily detected when
the squirrel is skinned.
The cycle of the botfly and its egg is such that
the worm, or wolves, works its way through the
muscles and drops off about the time that cold
weather sets in. You can usually find a few squir
rels with wolves during the first part of hunting
season but most of them have gone by then. Some
people cut away the inflamed area and eat the rest
of the squirrel. I’ve never tried it myself, but I
suppose it’s all right as I’ve never heard of anyone
suffering from wolves.
The botfly is one determining factor in set
ting the season on squirrels. In North Georgia,
cold weather usually sets in about the first of
October, and it stays warm for about a month
longer down in South Georgia. The seasons are
set for October 1 in North Georgia and Novem
ber 1 in South Georgia.
Another determining factor in setting the sea
son is the breeding period of the squirrels. Many of
the females have two litters per year—one coming
during late winter and the other during the late
summer. In the month of September some of the
females are still suckling their young, and in South
Georgia this is true even in October. If a female is
killed during this period, her young are left in the
nest to die.
Georgia has an abundance of squirrels, both
in the southern and northern parts. The gray
squirrel is in North Georgia and the fox and
gray squirrel is in North Georgia and the fox
and gray squirrel is in the southern part of the
state, ranging from the Piedmont on down. The
population of squirrels varies according to the
available food. At this particular time, the
population is high due to good food production
this year. In a year such as 1954, when there is
a long dry spell, the food becomes scarce and
the population drops off.
Squirrels are known to migrate into new areas
whenever their food becomes scarce. There are
records as far back as 1792 in Pennsylvania when
thousands of squirrels moved en masse from one
area to another. They were seen a hundred strong
swimming across lakes in some areas. In those days,
several states paid a bounty on squirrels because
they moved into areas in such huge numbers that
they destroyed many farm fields. However, there
are no records to indicate that our contemporary
squirrels move in such numbers. Today it’s more a
case of immigration than migration. They move out
of a scarce food area in small numbers, and most of
the time for only a short distance.
Predators have very little effect on squir
rels. There have been reports of squirrels being
pursued by various types of hawks, but the elu
sive squirrel usually manages to flatten him
self against a tree and escape. If one is in a
weakened condition he might become prey to a
weasel, fox, mink, raccoon, or other predator.
Sometimes a tree climbing snake will sneak up
into the nest when the mother’s away and steal
the young. Some people have reported finding
baby squirrels inside snakes. I remember on
one occasion when I was squirrel hunting, I
spotted two young squirrels in hot pursuit of a
big garden snake. They were running and chat
tering away for all they were worth, and every
now and then they would slow the snake down
and start nibbling at his tail.
The number of squirrel hunters has decreased
quite a bit during the past decade. Most hunters
used to get “squirrel fever” every year, and start
beating the bushes and watching the nut trees on
the first day of the season. Now only a few scat
tered groups 1 — u forward to the squirrel season
each year.
Fitzgerald, Ga. — A frail mother
of five, a junkman and a Negro
ex-convict were indicted Monday
on murder charges for the rifle
slaying of the woman’s husband.
Sheriff Cauley said a Ben Hill
county grand jury returned the
indictments and Judge Horne or
dered the three held wittiout
bond .
The sheriff identified the three
as Curtis Taylor, 42, a farmer
turned junked car dealer; Mrs.
Norman Walker Jr., 29; and Junior
Pettiford, 27, who was employed
by Taylor at the junk yard.
Walker, 31, a one-armed pulp-
wood worker, was shot to death
Friday night. Cauley said the
shooting with a rifle was admitted
by Pettiford who claimed Taylor
had promised him $200 for the job.
Mrs. Taylor told the sheriff she
and Taylor had been lovers for a
year and that he had told her he
knew some one who would kill her
husband for $200. The young
mother of five children, ranging
in age from three months to seven
years, also admitted she assisted
in arranging for the meeting be
tween her husband and the Negro
and that a drinking bout ensued
$133,800 Stolen
By Bank Bandits
Roberta, Ga. — Roberta com
munity has been selected as one
of five in Georgia to share in a
grant for urban planning being
given in the Ga. Department of
Commerce by the Urban Renewal
Department in Washington.
It will receive a proportionate
share of a S9.665 urban planning
grant aimed at assisting five com
munities in preparation of com
prehensive plans to guide their
growth and development.
Sixth District Rep. Carl Vinson
of Milledgeville announced the
grant last week.
He said the federal grant, supple
mented by local funds will finance
such planning activities as the
preparation of base maps, studies
of economic base population and
existing conditions relating to land
uses.
Vinson said the planning activi
ties are slated to be completed
within two years. The results will
be presented in the form of re
ports, maps, charts, plans and
other graphic materials, he said.
Airline is Seeking 9
Dixie Local Runs
ATLANTA—Georgia banks and
savings firms - or their insurors -
are out $133,800 this year already
because hoodlums with guns decid
ed it was easier to take money than
earn it.
So far the gunmen have proved
right. Not a single major robbery
has been solved *■ out of 12 that
have hit banks and savings and
loan associations in many sections
of Georgia during 1961.
Lawmen have hotly chased the
yeggmen. They have sifted for clues
and carefully followed promising
leads. About all they can report to
date is that they are still hopeful
of catching the robbers.
Even the FBI with all its resour
ces for crime detection has largely
shot blanks at Georgia’s bumper
1961 crop of bank robbers.
This much can be said. If and
when the badmen are caught, it
goes hard with them. Bank robbing
generally is a federal as Avell as
state offense. Prison sentences usu
ally run in the neighborhood of 20
years or more.
In the face of the unprecedented
wave of banditry, the banks and
the law, of course, have taken pre
cautions. Extra guards have been
employed and closer watch has
been established around the finan
cial houses.
But, it would seem, the guards
and the watches are at the wrong
place at the right time or at the
right place at the wrong time.
Following what has almost be
come a stereotyped pattern - al-beit
an effective one - the robbers gen
erally have managed to strike whe
re they were not expected, make
their hauls and get away.
It goes something like this:
A lone gunman enters. By one
pretext or another, he gets to the
bank employe with access to the
funds. He brandishes his pistol,
shakes out a bag, paper, cloth or
some other fabric, and in as gruff
and authoritative tone as he can
command he orders:
“Fill it up.”
His bag full, he darts out, climbs
into a stolen car, with or without
a confederate, and as away. The
law gives chase.
But somehow the well-heeled fu
gitive manages to ditch his original
car, steal another and perfects his
escape.
On occasions, the money-greedy
criminals have added frills. Only
a couple of weeks, ago, three of
them kidnaped the wife and son
of the thrice-robbed Jones County
Bank at Haddock and forced the
two to acrompany them as hostages
in a $1,100 robbery.
Hardest hit of the robbed finan
cial institutions in the Citizens and
Southern National Bank. Four of its
branches—two in the Atlanta area
and one each at Macon and Athens
have been taken for approximately
$70,500, all of course covered by
insurance as with the other banks.
The robbers have struck in city
and town, showing little or no pref
erence. One of their major forays
netted $20,000 at the small Cobb
County town of Acworth.
Other financial institutions were
robbed in Savannah, Ochlochnee,
Decatur, St. Simons Island and Tuc
ker an Atlanta suburb.
I WASHINGTON — Dixie Airlines
jhas applied to the Civil Aeronautics
i Board for a number of local service
routes in the South.
I Amending an earlier petition,
Dixie asked for routes between:
j 1. Montgomery, Ala., and Atlan
ta, by way of Aubum-Opelika and
Lanette, Ala., and West Point and
LaGrange, Ga.
| 2. Atlanta and Chattanooga by
way of Dalton. Ga.
3. Atlanta and Apalachicola-Fort
St. Joe • Carabelle, Fla., by way
of Americus and Thomasville, Ga.,
and Tallahassee, Fla.
| 4. Apalachicola - Port St. Joe •
Carabelle and Montgomery, Ala., by
way of Dothan and Troy, Ala.
5. Chattanooga and Huntsville,
Ala., by way of Fort Payne, Gads
den and Albertville-Guntersville,
'Ala.
j 6. Huntsville and Birmingham by
way of Decatur and Cullman, Ala
bama.
1 7. Birmingham and Montgomery
by way of Sylacauga and Alexand
er City, Ala.
8. Aubum-Opelika and Birming
ham by way of Alexander City and
Sylacauga.
i 9. Montgomery and Atlanta by
way of Alexander City, Sylacauga
and Talladega, Ala.
Her husband
calls her a genius.
Why? Because she budgets her time and
energy as well as the family income, and
she knows a real value when she sees it.
Proof: She participated in Georgia Power
Company’s home wiring plan that pays from
$50 to $200 toward the installation of ade
quate service entrance wiring.
Result: This young family is living better
. . . electrically. They are enjoying the com
fort, convenience and economy of adequate
home wiring. And they have the assurance
of “housepower” to handle any electric appli
ances they may add later.
P. S. Why don’t you contact an electrical
contractor, electric appliance dealer or Geor
gia Power Company office for full detail^ on
this wonderful home wiring plan? (There
may be a genius in your iamQjr, too!)
TAX-PAYINO
NYIITOI-OWNID
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
C I r I Z f N W H
W I S I R V ■
$150,000 Gems
Stolen at Hotel
ORLANDO, Fla.—A thief who ap
parently used a pass key entered
a hotel room Sunday and walked
out with a sample case full of dia
monds with a retail value of $150,-
000.
Gene DeRobertis, a jewel sales
man from Hartford, Conn., said the
case was stolen during a 10-minute
period when he was out for a cup
of coffee. He said there was no in
surance on the diamonds.
Be sure your car is set for safe, trouble-
free winter driving, by letting us serv
ice it with thorough, CERTIFIED Fall
Car-Check, plus complete radiator
protection that is GUARANTEED by
Standard Oil!
You select the temperature you wish
your cooling-system protected down
to; we check radiator, fanbelt, hose
to be sure system is water-tight; put
in required amount of Atlas Perma-
Guard, and then give you Standard
Oil’s guarantee of radiator protection
till April 1, 1962.
Let us take cold-weather car worries
off your mind !
STANDARD
OIL
DealCRI
FALL CERTIFIED CAR-CHECK
is a complete check and servicing
from bumper-to-bumper, after
which we give you a CERTIFI
CATE showing what has been
checked and serviced. Assures
you safer winter driving.
GUARANTEED
RADIATOR PROTECTION
is thorough cooling-system serv
icing with the necessary amount
of Atlas Perma-Guard installed,
plus guaranteed radiator protec
tion to April 1, 1962.
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Reynolds, Georg 5 ' 1
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Butler, Georgia
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Butler, Georgia